Levitz Furniture Incorporated

Company

  • Pre-filing annual sales: $1,780 (millions of current dollars)
  • Pre-filing assets: $1,720 (millions of current dollars)
  • Pre-filing number of employees: 5,018
  • Sub-industry: 57 Home Furniture, Furnishings, and Equipment Stores
  • Place of incorporation: DE
  • Court for city of headquarters: FL West Palm Beach
  • In business at filing? yes

Bankruptcy case

  • Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
  • Who filed case? debtors
  • Debtor's lead attorney: Skadden Arps
  • Date of filing: September 5, 1997
  • Judge at filing: Joseph J. Farnan, Jr.
  • Court district of filing: DE
  • Court city of filing: Wilmington
  • Case number: 97-01842
  • Cause of bankruptcy: Not tort
  • Forum shop? Forum Shop

  • Case transferred? no
  • Destination court of transfer: not applicable
  • Creditors committee appointed? yes
  • ยง363 sale: no 363 sale
  • Dip loan final approval? yes
  • Plan type: free fall

  • Disposition status: confirmed
  • Date of disposition: December 14, 2000
  • Judge at disposition: Mary F. Walrath
  • Days from filing to disposition: 1196

After the case

  • Did firm emerge? Company emerged
  • Did firm refile? emerged 5 years, refiled


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